Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owner of the Quiet Few in East Boston's Jeffries Point open a similar establishment, to be called Small Victories, at 400 Dorchester St. in South Boston's Andrew Square, where Backyard Betty's was meant to go.
In fact, to open his proposed Small Victories, Josh Weinstein would purchase the liquor license Backyard Betty's had gotten for the location.
His attorney, Kristen Scanlon, promised "a cozy neighborhood bar" and a scratch kitchen.
The new bar would have a total occupancy of 120, with 70 to 80 seats and hours of 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.
The Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association reached across the harbor to assure its counterparts at the Andrew Square Civic Association that Weinstein has been a great neighbor, according to a neighborhood liaison from the city's Office of Neighborhood Services, who said the Andrew Square group concluded that Small Victories would be "a big victory" for the neighborhood.